. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Julv, 11)07. American liee Joarnal| --'i>f A HOMK BiCIC-SON'G. The twilight bees to the comb, And the wandering bird to the nest, And the roaming sails turn home Far out in the darkening west; Home, home, tlicy gladly drift, Though the lawn was loved of the bee, And the bird had loved the lift As the sailor the open sea. And I, who have wandered far, Down unrcmcmbered ways, With never a steadfast star Through all these drifting days. Now turn to an Iiui whereof I know one door stands wide— And the rest is silence, love, Till the world is shut outsi
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Julv, 11)07. American liee Joarnal| --'i>f A HOMK BiCIC-SON'G. The twilight bees to the comb, And the wandering bird to the nest, And the roaming sails turn home Far out in the darkening west; Home, home, tlicy gladly drift, Though the lawn was loved of the bee, And the bird had loved the lift As the sailor the open sea. And I, who have wandered far, Down unrcmcmbered ways, With never a steadfast star Through all these drifting days. Now turn to an Iiui whereof I know one door stands wide— And the rest is silence, love, Till the world is shut outside! —Arthur J. Stringer. Spring Management and Swarming. I will suppose that, on April 15, you have 100 fairly good colonies that were just taken from their winter quarters, and that each colony contains a good, well-developed Italian queen not over ten months old that has been reared from some good honey-gathering strain of bees. I shall take it for granted that your hives are filled with nice worker- combs. We will commence the season's work by putting a feeder under every hive and giving each colony about i;-S cents' worth of extracted honey, or sugar sy- rup, which must be made very thin, of about the consistency of nectar, and feed them about this amount every day that the weather is such they can not gather anything from flowers until about the last of May. This will require on an average, one season with another, about 50 cents' worth of honey or sugar per colony; and, if properly done, you will have. May 25, every hive crowded with brood and maturing bees at the rate of 2000 or more a day. About two weeks previous to this we should start the rearing of four or five hundred queen-cells, which are now. May 26. about ready to hatch. Now we will divide our colonies, making two of each, and fix them so that the queenless part will mature two or more of these ripe queen-cells or virgins into nice lay- ing queens; then about the last of June we will separate these colonies
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